- The first user ratings for Stellar Blade appeared on Metacritic on April 28, with a rating of 9.1 points based on 500 reviews. By May 1, the average score had risen to 9.3 points, with nearly 2,500 reviews.
- Users noted that this not only made it the highest-rated game of 2024 but also the highest-rated title for PS5 overall.
- Stellar Blade surpassed other popular titles such as Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (9 points), Astro's Playroom (9 points), and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (8.9 points). However, the latter has around eight thousand ratings, and it's uncertain whether a Shift Up game would maintain its rating with a similar number of reviews.
- Stellar Blade was released on PS5 on April 26 and quickly climbed the sales charts.
